It's impossible to do watercolor paintings while snorkeling, but I was able to take hundreds of watercolor photos as I snorkeled the clear waters of Jamaica, Bonaire, and the Cayman Islands where some fascinating sea creatures appeared.

Sally Stovall is a recognized local leader in the cause of lowering our collective carbon footprint through cooperative community action. In 2010 as a co-founder and leader of Oak Park-based Green Community Connections, she brought together a group of area residents who were working separately on sustainability education and actions.

River Forest village trustees made the right call — the only call — when they approved District 90's application to renovate the exterior of Roosevelt Middle School conditioned on the reconfiguration of the North lot to include 30 parking spaces.

Later this month, the school board at Oak Park and River Forest High School will talk again and likely decide whether to allow noted documentary filmmaker Steve James wide access to the school to make a film on the achievement gap.

Changes are afoot at Wednesday Journal. Things will shift starting next week as we continue our rolling reinvention of this newspaper. The biggest change you'll notice is the absence of the LifeLines section.

I was among an audience of several hundred music lovers on Sunday afternoon at Grace Episcopal Church. I came away from two-plus hours of enthralling music feeling fortunate to have this cultural gem right at my doorstep in Oak Park.

As of today, and, at least, through the April local election season, OakPark.com will require all commenters to use Facebook Verified to post a live comment to our site. More than four years ago, Wednesday Journal launched OakPark.com and, for the first time, allowed readers to post comments live. For the most part, those comments were posted anonymously. In most cases that has not been a concern as readers have attempted to insert some humor into their screen names or have stuck with a name and a consistent message.